“The project ran from 30 March 2026 to 8 November 2026 (a bit over 7 months) the total energy used was 98.4 kWh.”
Seven months of building a whole Linux distro for 98.4 kWh. Chromium alone took almost four hours and about 25 cents. The whole thing costs under AU$5 a month. The author admits the real figure is probably double. That’s still a rounding error next to one AI data center.